Linguistics 322

Summer 2001

Week 6

due 18 JL 01

 

Exercise No. 6: Subjects (Prom) and the indicative mood)

#I:

Note: inner brackets need not be drawn. At this stage, it is unknown how [+Nom] is assigned to Prom. So don't mark it here.


Draw by hand the structures for

(1)   The doctor ate an apple.

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(2)   Some students were writing a letter.

(3)   Many nuns have read several books.

 

 

(4)   The two men had been being shaved by the police.

 

Indicate the rules required to derive the above from their underlying logical structures. Draw out the full NP for #1. You may leave NP abbreviated for the remaining phrases.

#2

Download the current version of the computer program (from the same site). Generate the following forms:

(To be assigned later.)

Course Outline L322
322 Exercises
 

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